J Psychosoc Nurs Men
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J Psychosoc Nurs Men · Jul 1994
Promoting quality mental health care delivery with critical path care plans.
1. Mental Health providers are under increasing pressure to provide objective, individualized care that produces outcomes that may be measured against accepted clinical standards. 2. Clinicians may now track patient responses throughout a continuum of treatment in varying locations by using a customized critical path/treatment plan format. 3. Care delivery is documented by superimposing actual occurrences over desired ones on a critical pathway.
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1. Legal nurse consultants are registered nurses who use their clinical knowledge and expertise to assist attorneys with their cases in any context where law and medicine overlap. 2. ⋯ The ultimate goal of the legal nurse consultant is to provide the attorney with answers to questions relating to medical issues that may arise in a court of law. 4. The greatest challenge and opportunity the legal nurse consultant faces is the task of educating attorneys on the medical issues of their cases so that they are as knowledgeable and comfortable with these issues as they are with the liability issues.
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1. The objective of the debriefing process is the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ⋯ Debriefing, individually and in groups, is an effective intervention in preventing the adverse reactions incurred by a traumatic stressor. The use of a debriefing model counteracts the tendency to suppress the powerfully affective component of the traumatic experience.
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J Psychosoc Nurs Men · Jan 1993
Case ReportsGrieving: facilitating the process for dementia caregivers.
1. Grief is a psychological and physiological process that occurs in response to a specific loss. Through the grieving process, those who have experienced a loss come to terms with the finality of the loss and the meaning of the loss in their life. 2. ⋯ Because such losses are often hard to recognize, nurses can plan interventions to facilitate predeath grief. 3. Even when dementia caregivers are able to work through their predeath grief, they cannot fully re-establish their lives until after their relative dies. Some caregivers may never completely resolve the predeath and postdeath losses that have resulted from caring for their relative.